Nonfiction

Essays

The Body I Couldn't Abstract

Motherhood reshaped how I see shame, art, and the female body
Megan O’Grady
Objects of Desire

A Night’s Sleep

An insomniac’s lifelong pursuit
Vincenzo Latronico
Memoir

Dogsbody

Dale Peck
A Closer Look

An Unsettling Civil War Photograph

An image from the Battle of the Wilderness
Rachel Eisendrath
Essays

Night Knowledge

What I learned at the club
Aria Aber
Essays

Quiver and Fixity

What I found returning to Thomas Hardy in midlife
Jhumpa Lahiri

Browse

Nonfiction

From the Archives

Literary Criticism in American Periodicals

Bliss Perry
July 1, 1914
From the Archives

A Jane Austen Letter with Other “Janeana” from an Old Book of Autographs

M. A. De Wolfe Howe
Letters

Niki de Saint Phalle's Inner World

A selection of the French artist's letters
Nicole Rudick
Ideas

The All Play No Fun Economy

How did we end up teetering between euphoria and exhaustion?
Jessikah Díaz
A portrait of Heaney O Connor

The Impact of Translation

Seamus Heaney